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I don't realised that graphical anomalies at all, everything looks like it runs smother now . I used to play with a max frame rate of 22 in little valleys with trees and a village. With this new files (honestly rather old:2004) i have in the same valley 28 Fps, the same when inbound for landing and a huge boost over water. I Have a 6600GT and i play on 1024x768 2xAA 4xAF, scenes and texture on high, haze advanced and shadow active planar. So I'm often in between the significant 20-30 frames that let u realize stuttering. Now the average FPS is 4-7 frames faster ,but i still don't realize it much over big cities:still 12-20 frames. After asking my Brother to install this mod and report me any changes I have the vaguest notion that on "gfx limited" systems (with only 4 or 6 active pixel pipelines) like mine, Lockon waits more for the GFX to do the job than for the CPU, so I can benefit of the tweak and see a change in Fps. On highend systems like my brothers (dual core, GeForce 8800) there isn't any change noticable because lockon have already reached the highest Fps (he has average FSP of 34) with this strong GFX and waits only for the CPU to draw the next frame. I have made a very simplified diagram to visualize my theory :

Full For me its the most comfortable/natural position and i didn't had to get used to it.

Maybe the "SimLight" of an German F-16 pit builder is the right for you. http://www.xflight.de/f16/pe_sim_sml.htm You will also find detailed plans of a f-16 pit on his page. http://www.xflight.de/f16/

Be aware that I'm using a 6600gt,low-end today, I have no clue what effects this manipulation has on other system wit better GFX. But it works for me very well and i hope that some pals out there with low-end graphic systems could benefit of it too.

Anybody heard of this before?: While i was searching for some documentation or hints how to change parameters of the files in the Bazar\Effects folder (Changing color of the Skybox) I found this very interesting mod on http://fellblade.net/projects.htm-"Custom Shaders- ps.1.1". And Hey! - after 1 hour of testing I can say that it boosted my average FPS 4-7 frames up without any graphical anomalies . Now i can land at Krasnodar-Center without stuttering!

:thumbup: Nice Story - realistic or not - I had enjoyed it very much. The first part already (one vision) gives me thrills. You captured the aesthetic of LockOn very well without great effort of adding FX. And a big :thumbup: to the Soundtrack(We should make a jam session together). Don't hesitated to post more movies of this quality.:smilewink: I will keep it on a save place at my harddrive.

http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?p=268409#post268409

That's the point, I want to keep the big puffy clouds but only with a white background (just the same way you often see it in winter days). I had my trials with several files in Lockon/bazar/effects yet. I tried it with the Lightning\Lightning.cfg, but it seems that the values only changing the color reflection on the ground without touching the sky. Here some pics I have made after changing some values of the sky/sky_basic.dat and sky/sky_new.dat. Full Full Full (looks to me like flying in a old StarTrek episode of the 60's: "Kirk at Scotty, the sun starts to collapse! Beam me up! :) ) My second thought to get there is to move/add the existing layer of Fog higher than the base of the clouds. But it's really hard to change the values if you don't even have a guess what you are really doing when changing parameters like this: :cry: Chizh please help! Even if you only tell me that I'm wasting my time would help. Than I could get back to work on an medicine against cancer and save the world , without thoughts in my brain like: "!oh - r0.x,r1 just makes this, than maybe...ehm .. r0.w,c9.x makes that? erhmm... have to try!":P

Watch the full video HERE;) You can also download the video for offline use, but first you have to get the "Google Video Player". Don't hesitate to download , because i don't know how long the video will be online.:music_whistling:

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Uploading now to Google-Video(580mb). It could take a while . I will post the link when ready. edit: 95% uploaded

It don't mean angels like this: It means angels like this:

Thats a good Idea, but from my point of view i would be very glad if they could add a "skybox color" option in the mission editor like this: http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=21379 I think it could be done without great effort.

Hello everybody! This night it snowed in Berlin. This inspired me to take a snow-ride with lockon (i often enjoy flying with FS9 under real weather conditions):) . So i set the clouds parameter up to 7 with snow, visibility to 30 km and added also a little fog to simulate the low visibility range caused from the snow. And see what i get: Full (OK- to be honest, after three years of flying with lockon, i don't expected a different outlook.) A little disappointed i searched over an hour for a file where i could change the color of the sky from bright blue to white/light grey. I found several "dat"-files like deepsky.dat in Lock On\Bazar\World\SkyObjects, but but I'm not able to change/or even see their information with the editor. I know that "controlling the weather" is modeled really poor in LockOn. And I usually don't mind it, but I think If we only could change the color of the skybox from bright-blue to light-grey, it would be a great enhancement for the "optical" weather simulation without using overcast. I really don't like to use rain/snow without full overcast, because it always looks like "bad weather" in the Bermuda-triangle:) . The below picture is photoshoped and shows what i hope to receive after changing the skybox color. Full Maybe someone of you knows/find a solution. The best of all of course would be if someone from ED would add a slider (from grey over white to blue) in the weather menu of BlackShark :thumbup:.

go to lockonfiles.com, get yourself registered, grab modman 5 . Be sure you read :book: the install guide and toutorial of Modman 5. Check you LockOn version and your patch status. Install tons of mods and skins - Than enjoy!

Don't worry, I will give you the information in time. :)

Full Be sure that it looks like the screen above. I use also the X45.

Fact WARNING! VIOLENT CONTENT! Due to some violent content, Parental discretion is advised. This post contains images of violence and gore and may contain images of a violent and disturbing nature This are some screens of the ending from a fresh TV-documentary about the history of the F-14 ,on German TV. full full full full full full full full full full full full full full:cry: full

:book:http://bvr.jpn.org/lockon/model/index_e.html ;)

:thumbup: There is always someone who invent, and someone who produce. I think this is the issue.

Hey,Tflash! Really, a good find!:)

Ehrmm... Let me thing about it.....Good Question! .... half an hour later...... Answer: I thing that ED, when releasing LockOn 1.0 ,don't realised really what powerfull tool (the engine of flanker 2.5) they got holding in their hands. But than a child named "LockOn" was born, and was immediately taken away by his evil stepmother (ubisoft):cry: . And it had the same experience like all children without a mother or helping hand - only a hard working Father - and only one real friend (this Community): To stand on one's own feet. In the meantime the "Father" ED has to go to work and earn money,to feed his children (The Fighter Collection Simulation Engine,BlackShark,PC-Based Desktop Trainers for the Air national guard as part of the United States Air Force A-10C),but this don't mean that he doesn't love his son! He just hadn't the time to do it alone(and i think he would if he could) So its up to us! We must give this "child" patience and the knowledge (it is all here in this forum). And maybe we can educate him the "missing" parts, with the permission of his father?:)

:lol: ...i thing its time to close the subjekt , before people start to flame each other. (hey, but good point!:megalol: )

Wonderfully new idea (at least for me:P ) of making a technical"education"movie with LockOn. Who ever made this (it says drawing by T.Schultz),please sign on this thread that I can give you my rep-points for your time and work! Great work!:thumbup: >Download and watch<